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luni, 26 decembrie 2016

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Turkey accuses IS of killing 30 civilians in Syria

AFP

Dec 26, 2016

The Turkish army on Monday accused Islamic State (IS) jihadists of
killing at least 30 civilians seeking to flee the flashpoint Syrian town
of Al-Bab which Ankara and its rebel allies have been seeking to
capture for weeks. The army said that the civilians were killed with
mines and homemade bombs as they tried to make their way out of Al-Bab,
the state-run Anadolu news agency reported, without giving further
details. Turkish forces and allied Syrian rebels have been seeking to
take Al-Bab as a key part of un unprecedented four month campaign that
began in late August. Read More

Putin’s Hit Teams Head for Syria

MOSCOW—Dozens
of special military units in red berets lined up in the sun, waiting
for the transport to move them to what they gently referred to as
“Shama,” which in their Chechen mother tongue means the Holy Land in
Syria. Chechnya, a North Caucasus republic that fought and lost two
separatist wars against Russia in 1994-1996 and 1999-2006, is now
sending hundreds of its sons to the Middle East to fight against
Islamist groups, including the so-called Islamic State, where many
soldiers and some leaders are Chechen, too. Various Russian reports
mention from 3,500 to 5,000 Chechens enlisted with extremist groups in
Syria and Iraq. It was one thing to tell the world that Russian
President Vladimir Putin brought peace to Aleppo in Syria, and a
completely different story to maintain control over pro-Moscow regions
on the ground.

The Daily Beast

Israel: humbled Netanyahu places hopes in Trump

JERUSALEM
(AP) — The Israeli government's furious reaction to the U.N. Security
Council's adoption of a resolution opposing Jewish settlements in
occupied territory underscores its fundamental and bitter dispute with
the international community about the future of the West Bank and east
Jerusalem.

Associated Press

Russian military plane crashes into Black Sea

A
Russian military plane carrying 92 people, including dozens of Red Army
Choir singers, dancers and orchestra members, crashed into the Black
Sea on its way to Syria on Sunday, killing everyone on board, Russian
authorities said.The Russian Defence Ministry said one of its TU-154
Tupolev planes had disappeared from radar screens at 0525 MSK (9:25 p.m.
ET), two minutes after taking off from Sochi in southern Russia, where
it had stopped to refuel from Moscow, on its way to Syria.Major-General
Igor Konashenkov, a ministry spokesman, told reporters that nobody had
survived.“The area of the crash site has been established. No survivors
have been spotted,” he said. An unnamed ministry source told Russian
news agencies no life rafts had been found, while another source told
the Interfax agency that the plane had not sent an SOS signal. (Newsweek
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Pakistani
Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif has tweeted a nuclear threat
against Israel after falling victim to a fake news article, which
claimed that Israel had warned Pakistan against intervening in Syria. On
Friday, Asif tweeted: "Israeli def min threatens nuclear retaliation
presuming Pak role in Syria against Daesh.

International Business Times UK

Pakistan issues nuke warning to Israel in response to 'fake news' story

KARACHI,
Pakistan, Dec. 25 (UPI) -- Pakistan's defense minister issued a warning
about its nuclear strength apparently in response to a fake news
article where Israel warned Pakistan about meddling in Israel. "Israeli
def min threatens nuclear retaliation presuming pak role in Syria
against Daesh. Israel forgets Pakistan is a Nuclear state too,"
Pakistan's Khawaja Muhammad Asif tweeted Friday. Asif was responding to a
fake news story on the website AWDnews.com in which Israel falsely
responded to a Pakistani promise to send troops to Syria with a threat
of nuclear attack. The Israeli Ministry of Defense replied with a tweet
of its own pointing out the reports are "completely false." The story

UPI

Meet the dyslexic spy who almost took down the feds

When
FBI special agent Steven Carr opened a package FedExed to him from the
FBI’s New York office in December 2000, he assumed it would contain the
typical inter-office issue. Instead, he found three letters that had
been encrypted and mailed out to the Libyan consulate. “I am a Middle
East North African analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency,” the
letter read. “I am willing to commit espionage against the US by
providing your country with highly classified information.” Carr then
found items marked “CLASSIFIED SECRET” and “CLASSIFIED TOP SECRET” —
mostly satellite images of Middle Eastern military operations. If Libya
wanted more secrets, the spy wrote, it would have to take out an ad in

New York Post

Husband of Man Who Harassed Ivanka Trump Trolled on Amazon

Two
men and their child were kicked off a JetBlue flight from New York to
San Francisco on Thursday after one of the men recognized Ivanka Trump
and allegedly harassed her before takeoff.